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Politico reports:
The Supreme Court’s decision in the 2010 Citizens United case transformed the world of politics. It loosened restrictions on campaign spending and unleashed a flow of anonymous donor money to nonprofit groups run by political activists. In the months before the ruling dropped in January of that year, a group of conservative activists came together to create just such an organization. Its mission would be to, at the time, block then-President Barack Obama’s pet initiatives.
The activists included Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo and his ideological soulmate, a hard-edged activist named Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “Ginni really wanted to build an organization and be a movement leader,” said a person familiar with her thinking at that time. “Leonard [Leo] was going to be the conduit of that.” She also had a rich backer: Harlan Crow, the manufacturing billionaire.
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What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement https://t.co/A47NkH5w7M
— POLITICO (@politico) September 10, 2023
Leonard Leo and Ginni Thomas exploited Citizens United—before the decision actually came down—to create a dark money network of phony “nonprofits” that lobbied the Supreme Court while enriching Leo, Thomas, and all of their friends. https://t.co/aQyhDLE4ia
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) September 10, 2023
Leonard Leo paid Ginni Thomas OFF THE BOOKS, including at least one $25,000 payment that was routed through Kellyanne Conway. Leo explicitly instructed that the payment should NOT mention Ginni Thomas. Due to the Citizens United case, dark money has now entered U.S. politics. pic.twitter.com/zj20IBt6ls
— Tony – Resistance (@TonyHussein4) September 10, 2023